Jill McGowan - just arrived!

We have new shirts, dresses and jackets from Jill McGowan in Orleans! She makes some of our favorite, most frequently worn clothes.

Winding River clothing company

It's not my fault. It was cold when I got to work this morning. And the coat was jut THERE, waiting for me to buy it.

These Winding River jackets are made by a family-run business based in Braintree, MA. They are reversible and come in a bunch of groovy fabrics. They are spectacularly easy to justify. If you succumb to one, we won't tell.

Staff Picks: Marcy

Marcy says she'd like to just stay in the back room at Commercial Street and cover herself with pottery. Maybe a sweater. She says she always tells people, "if you go anywhere and find pottery that's nicer than what you see here, please come back and tell us. Because I've never seen nicer pottery."

It took her three weeks to finalize the first draft of the first installment of her wish list. Buckle up.

Marcy narrowed her favorite pottery down to Zpots, Good Elephant, Sequoia Miller (Swimming Deer Pottery), Dog Bar, Terry Gess, Laura Ross, Vasquez, Jeffrey Kleckner, Peter Karner, David Voll, Michael Kaplenk and Hank Goodman. Oh, and Mary Fielding and Keith Kreeger!

I didn't recognize a heap of these potters so I had to scurry to the gallery and photograph some samples. Check out our freshly updated pottery roster (still in the works, but with lots of new folks).

It's also hard to keep Marcy out of the jewelry displays. She is, in fact, a walking jewelry display. Her favorites du jour are Teresa Carson, Sarah Graham, Baharal Gnida, Somers and Fullerton Bahr.

Also she loves Giselle Shepatin, and paintings by Carol Odell, Joanne Williams and Carole Rollins.

Marcy works in all three galleries, although she spends most of her time in Orleans. Be sure to say hello - she'll be the one looking wistfully at whatever new arrivals she's unpacking.

Staff Picks: Martha

This is the Kate Nelson painting that Martha has her eye on in Orleans (it's part of the Small Treasures show). She likes Kate's large works too, especially their titles - "I try to imagine where she was or what she was thinking of when she titled them." Salute the Thunder? Who Made the Leap? Each one is more intriguing than the last. Other artists she likes are Audrey Heard, Katie Trinkle Legge and Ellen Granter - whose titles are pretty self explanatory.

Martha's also working on her Claireware collection. She's being a very good sport (if you ask me) and not snapping up the lunch plates when they first come in. And she'd get a Ugone lamp if she could just find a spot for it. She likes pretty much all the cards. Did you know we have cards? Good ones.

She's often thought she'd like a Bill Hickman mask, but who can decide which one? It seems as soon as we photograph them, they're gone. So she can't have these two because someone else does:


We don't let her out of the Commercial Street gallery very often, but she has been uptown enough to know that she likes Sarah Graham jewelry.

"And I like the chocolate oysters, yes I do!" We should probably inventory them more regularly.

Martha is the manager of the Commercial Street Gallery in Wellfleet.

Staff Picks: Susan

Remember that fantasy where you're sitting with the FAO Schwartz catalog and someone tells you to pick ANYTHING you want? I sometimes have that at work. In fact, I'm pretty sure everyone who works here does, so I thought I'd start a Staff Picks series.

I've asked everyone for their wishlists, but in the meantime, I'll go first. Here's what currently makes me giddy.

Right outside the office door is this painting by Ellen Rolli:



I hide out in the office a lot, so I get to look at it most of the day. Handy, that.

I have already gone on and on about my new found love of woodfired pottery. I can't go to Commercial Street without snooping around for a new piece of this or that. There's currently a shallow Dog Bar bowl I'm eyeing. I am also devotedly smitten with Liz Kinder and Thea Tenenbaum in Orleans.

There is a Bill Starke sculpture in the front window at Cove Road right now that's pretty great. We don't have pictures of the ones we have (bad, bad webmaster. No cookie) but this is what it looks like:



I've had a Terri Logan river rock bracelet on my wishlist for ages, in case my husband gets especially desperate at birthdays and giftie holidays:



And I have a standing order for Hessel candlesticks:



Well that about scratches the surface. More later.

Oh, and I thought we should introduce ourselves as we go. I'm the webmaster and also the media liason and marketing person. If it's about the gallery, it's my job (if it's in the gallery, that's someone else. You'll meet them too).